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The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (2003, Hardcover)
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A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin , winner of the Booker Prize Margaret Atwood's new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake , nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. From the Hardcover edition.Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100385503857
ISBN-139780385503853
eBay Product ID (ePID)2405447
Product Key Features
Book TitleOryx and Crake
TopicGeneral, Literary
Publication Year2003
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorMargaret Atwood
Book SeriesThe Maddaddam Trilogy
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3in.
Item Length9.5in.
Item Width6.6in.
Item Weight24.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN2002-073290
Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsPraise for The Blind Assassin: "The first great novel of the new millennium." -Newsday "Absorbing . . . expertly rendered . . . Virtuosic storytelling [is] on display." -New York Times "Brilliant . . . Opulent . . . Atwood is a poet . . . as well as a contriver of fiction, and scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work, adding to a picture that becomes enormous." -John Updike, The New Yorker "Chilling . . . Lyrical . . . [Atwood's] most ambitious work to date." -Boston Globe "Hauntingly powerful . . . A novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights and fierce characters . . . Atwood's new work is so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent, she casts her contemporaries in the shade." -The Atlanta Journal Constitution "Grand storytelling on a grand scale... Sheerly enjoyable." -Washington Post Book World "Bewitching . . . A killer novel . . . Atwood's crisp wit and steely realism are reminiscent of Edith Wharton . . . A wonderfully complex narrative." -Christian Science Monitor, Praise for The Blind Assassin: "The first great novel of the new millennium." Newsday "Absorbing . . . expertly rendered . . . Virtuosic storytelling [is] on display." New York Times "Brilliant . . . Opulent . . . Atwood is a poet . . . as well as a contriver of fiction, and scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work, adding to a picture that becomes enormous." John Updike, The New Yorker "Chilling . . . Lyrical . . . [Atwood's] most ambitious work to date." Boston Globe "Hauntingly powerful . . . A novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights and fierce characters . . . Atwood's new work is so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent, she casts her contemporaries in the shade." The Atlanta Journal Constitution "Grand storytelling on a grand scale... Sheerly enjoyable." Washington Post Book World "Bewitching . . . A killer novel . . . Atwood's crisp wit and steely realism are reminiscent of Edith Wharton . . . A wonderfully complex narrative." Christian Science Monitor, Praise forThe Blind Assassin"The first great novel of the new millennium."-Newsday"Absorbing . . . expertly rendered . . . Virtuosic storytelling [is] on display."-New York Times"Brilliant . . . Opulent . . . Atwood is a poet . . . as well as a contriver of fiction, and scarcely a sentence of her quick, dry yet avid prose fails to do useful work, adding to a picture that becomes enormous."-John Updike,The New Yorker"Chilling . . . Lyrical . . . [Atwood's] most ambitious work to date."-Boston Globe"Hauntingly powerful . . . A novel of luminous prose, scalpel-precise insights and fierce characters . . . Atwood's new work is so assured, so elegant and so incandescently intelligent, she casts her contemporaries in the shade."-The Atlanta Journal--Constitution"Grand storytelling on a grand scale... Sheerly enjoyable."-Washington Post Book World"Bewitching . . . A killer novel . . . Atwood's crisp wit and steely realism are reminiscent of Edith Wharton . . . A wonderfully complex narrative."-Christian Science Monitor
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume NumberBK. 1
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Lc Classification NumberPr9199.3.A8o79 2003
Number of Pages400 Pages
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- 16 Oct, 2019
Very pertinent today, and even more so in light of the evolving technologies
Well, it's Margaret Atwood, again a winner of the Booker Prize for her latest sequel to the Handmaid's tale, she previously presented this, the first book of the madman trilogy. Amazingly, and considering when this was written, it offers a scary peek into the darkside future of genetic tinkering. Given the subsequent advances with CRISPR, and the scandal in China about the CRISPR baby, the storyline takes on a more compelling and firghtening tonality. The wriring is excellent, the story is now much less far-fetched, and the book a "page-turner". While still science fiction, and some of the genetic "splices" questionably plausable, the implications about both intended and un-intended consequences raises real concerns about whether the evolving technology needs closer scrutiny. Thoroughly enjoyable, thought provoking, an excellent read; and time to go on to the 2nd book of the trilogy.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 25 Aug, 2018
Arrive quick
Great item. Thanks for finding good homes for used books :)Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 09 Jan, 2018
Great
Ordered the book for a college class have not read it but the book arrived on time and in perfect condition.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 12 Apr, 2023
Add to your library
A mustVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
